A bitty browser with big potential

When defining his place in the heirarchy of Web developers, Scott Matthews describes himself as “a bitter old man who can’t talk Web 2.0 or mashup.” But as the brains behind Turnstyle,he’s also responsible for two very useful web applications: Andromeda, an application for sharing audio files through streaming media; and his latest creation, Bitty.

Bitty is, of all things, a browser-within-a-browser — a way to present content from elsewhere within a web page, so that users can navigate through searches, blogrolls and even RSS and OPML feeds without ever leaving the web page they started off on.

Matthews started off building Bitty merely as a way to allow people to display Andromeda streaming sites within another site. But he realized that he could use the mini-browser
for presenting any other kind of dynamic web content within any web page.
Confused? See the full post here for more details, since WordPress.com doesn’t like JavaScript in posts. Or any sort of script, for that matter.

~ by Sean Gallagher on February 17, 2006.